Faith and Patronage The Political Career of Flaithri O Maolchonaire, C. 1560-1629
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Produktdetails
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Erscheinungsdatum
01.01.2010
Herausgeber
John McCaffertyVerlag
Irish Academic PressSeitenzahl
222
Maße (L/B/H)
23.5/15.9/2.5 cm
Gewicht
544 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-0-7165-3048-0
The Franciscan friar Flaithri O Maolchonaire was a man of many roles: Gaelic scholar and educator, special envoy, and consummate politician with deep religious convictions. Benjamin Hazard has written a fascinating and engaging study of this flawed yet brilliant man and his times. O Maolchonaire left Ireland in the 1590s after Tudor state-building policies had spread from the Pale into regions previously controlled by his family's powerful Gaelic allies. He studied at the University of Salamanca, leaving him ideally placed to act as diplomatic agent between the Ulster earls and the Spanish crown 15 years later. He first gained renown when Spain intervened in Ireland's Nine Years War after which O Maolchonaire used his influence to find employment for battle-hardened Irish veterans in the Spanish armed forces. With the favor this gained for him at the Spanish court, he established St. Anthony's College at the University of Leuven, thereby providing the foundations for a new network of I
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